Dartford Press Cuttings, 1971

Articles from local newspapers regarding a range of subjects including fears of redundancies among maintenance engineers; a dinner held in honour of long serving employees; public appeals to raise funds for a postgraduate medical centre to be built at the Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford; the return of the Houses of Parliament 'Tabloid' medicine chest after its annual refit (the chest was first donated by the company in 1908); a training programme for school leavers; a cuttings from the Dartford Chronicle regarding a decline in Smallpox vaccinations in the UK and government statements that "…for people resident in this country smallpox vaccination is unnecessary…"; visit to the Dartford plant by a Soviet pharmaceutical delegation ("Wellcome Comrades!"); donation of 250,000 antibacterial tablets for use against the cholera epidemic in East Pakistan; visit by forty West German hospital pharmacists to the plant; an extension costing £1 million and a new £300,000 headquarters at the Dartford site; the fiftieth anniversary of the isolation of insulin, and two articles on the proposed Thames flood barrier. Also includes cuttings on various social events (including a hot pants competition, fashion show, beauty pageant, etc) and staff appointments and retirements.

1971

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